Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water

carbonman writes "NYTimes is reporting that a public-private research team will announce on Monday that they have discovered a new technique to produce pure hydrogen that is far more efficient than conventional methods. The advance could be a significant development in attempts to realize the dream of the hydrogen economy in taking gasoline-powered vehicles off the road, and without releasing carbon dioxide emissions that are linked to climate change. It does, however, require the use of advanced high-temperature nuclear reactors, none of which have been built on a production scale before." swiftstream adds a link to the same story at the no-reg Indianapolis Star, and summarizes the method as "electrolysis of very, very hot water."

Comments

Obligotory

[Kelerain]

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

Nuclear?

[Piranhaa]

Hmm, nuclear reactions? Isn't the point to get hydrogen to be used with fusion(w/ helium3) without any byproducts? If you need to start using nuclear reactions, this still isn't a 'great' way to get hydrogen. I still believe using solarpanels and using electrolysis for getting hydrogen is still the best way. No CO2, no nuclear waste... Well that's just my opinion...

Re:Don't link to NYTimes!

[SpookyFish]

http://bugmenot.com/

Re:Very Very hot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Parent is underrated. I would mod it +1 funny. Where are my mod points when i need them?

Heh

[Tufriast]

Now where's Keanu Reeves when you need him...